New Text Editor for DSL

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: New Text Editor for DSL
started by: dare2dreamer

Posted by dare2dreamer on Feb. 13 2006,00:17

I just stumbled on this new gtk1 text editor project:

< http://gtkedit1.sourceforge.net/ >

It's goal is to be a feature-for-feature replacement for windows notepad. While I'm no fan of notepad, it might make a good candidate for a gui text editor for DSL as so many people are migrating from windows.

Also, the statically compiled binary is a whopping 30k, versus beaver's 300k+ footprint.

Figured I'd pass it along.

Regardless, I'll see about putting together an extension in the near future.

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 13 2006,18:06

Of course Beaver is a syntax highlighting multibuffer text/script/code editor, so it should be larger than gtkedit1

I like programs like Beaver. They are good when you are editing shell scripts and want to catch simple errors like missing punctuation.

gtkedit1 looks like a good choice for it's intended purpose. But it is not a like-for-like replacement of Beaver.

Posted by dare2dreamer on Feb. 14 2006,04:15

Oh, don't get me wrong...I'm a huge fan of beaver. I just figured the windows-centric nature of gtkedit would be handy for recent refugees of the windows world.

On a completely personal note, I'd like to thank the Damn Small Linux community for an in-context opportunity to type the phrase "I'm a huge fan of beaver" into a web forum that didn't require me to verify my age first. ;-)

Posted by peczenyj on Feb. 15 2006,12:59

SCITE !

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 15 2006,17:48

NEDIT!

Posted by Guest on Feb. 17 2006,21:02

Quote (cbagger01 @ Feb. 13 2006,13:06)

I like programs like Beaver. They are good when you are editing shell scripts and want to catch simple errors like missing punctuation.

VI does the same things, and supports copy, paste, syntax highlighting.and punctuation checking. VI is easier to use than ever to use with GVIM (vim full) available from the myDSL repository...

Also, VI can be found in every Linux version available to date.
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